Suzan's annual plant exchange (April 7, 2018)

Suzan, our neighbor and hostess with the mostest, is an example of Life imitating art here.  Her husband Steve sculpted the puckering stone face.

Everyone takes three plants/gardening items to the party and goes home with three different plants.  We draw numbers and go around the circle in numerical order, choosing one plant per round until all the plants are gone.  I contributed an African violet that isn't blooming in our south-facing kitchen window, in hopes that someone else can get it to bloom; a catnip plant (because Einar is not among the 2/3 of cats that have the catnip crazy gene and someone else might have such a cat); and sunflower seeds (the flowers attract the wild Monk parrots some years).  I brought home a cutting from a banana tree that actually produces this far north; red impatiens; and a chrysanthemum.

Plant-head dolls were a favorite at the party.

This ceramic guy is the party mascot. He goes home with somebody different every year. He lived on our kitchen island the year I had him.